Financial Inclusion

Financial Inclusion
Profile: Julius, A South Korean Global Citizen
July 08, 2016

Global Citizens – those individuals with the means to support the pursuit of personal priorities – is a concept often discussed but rarely defined. The inaugural edition of the PYMNTS.com Global Citizen Index™ puts some structure around how much these individuals make and how they...

Financial Inclusion
Profile: Ziliang, A Chinese Global Citizen
July 07, 2016

Global Citizens – those individuals with the means to support the pursuit of personal priorities – is a concept often discussed but rarely defined. The inaugural edition of the PYMNTS.com Global Citizen Index™ puts some structure around how much these individuals make and how they...

Financial Inclusion
Profile: Harish, An Indian Global Citizen
July 06, 2016

Global Citizens – those individuals with the means to support the pursuit of personal priorities – is a concept often discussed but rarely defined. The inaugural edition of the PYMNTS.com Global Citizen Index™ puts some structure around how much these individuals make and how they...

Financial Inclusion
Meet The Global Citizen
July 05, 2016

Global Citizens – those individuals with the means to support the pursuit of personal priorities – is a concept often discussed but rarely defined. The inaugural edition of the PYMNTS.com Global Citizen Index™ puts some structure around how much these individuals make and how they...

Financial Inclusion
Financial Inclusion In A Cashless World
May 13, 2016

Look no further than a mobile device, in-store payment terminal or even the latest wearable device to experience firsthand how advancing technologies are making digital payments more accessible than ever before. But is it possible that the shift away from the use of cash-based payments...

MasterCard Collaboration To Drive Rwanda’s Cashless Plans
May 12, 2016

MasterCard and the government of Rwanda have announced a collaboration to help bring more of its citizens into the financial fold. As part of its Vision 2020 initiative, Rwanda is promoting moving toward a cashless economy, which is where MasterCard’s aid comes into the mix. To...

Financial Inclusion
Why Credit Isn’t Working For Financial Inclusion
May 10, 2016

  Just a few months ago at PYMNTS’ Innovation Project 2016, PayPal CEO Dan Schulman told Karen Webster that “financial inclusion is really about financial health.” Acquiring that financial health means financial institutions are able to not only know, but accurately identify, their customers. But...

Financial Inclusion
Why Credit Score Volatility Isn’t All Bad
April 07, 2016

The question is not just if credit scores will change, but how much will they change, and in what situations are these fluctuations actually meaningful to lenders? For lenders specifically, the dynamic nature of consumer credit scores presents two very unique issues. First, it’s pretty...

MasterCard’s Digital Road To Humanitarian Solutions
April 04, 2016

With MasterCard’s announcement today of its partnership with World Vision, the company is moving forward in its quest to affect developmental and social outcomes in a commercially and operationally sustainable way. Tara Nathan, EVP, Public Private Partnerships at MasterCard, shares with MPD CEO Karen Webster...